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RE: Cooling System in China Cools the Air Around Apartment Buildings

DAB — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:43:29 GMT

Makes sense. Same principle as an air conditioner just using the heat absorption capability of water.

Cheap, easy to install and very effective.

RE: Bambu Lab Introduces a New Cleaner/Safer 3D Printing Filament

kmikemoo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:07:00 GMT

This is pretty cool. I'm sure that Benchy has been gnawed on by more than one child. This makes it safer. [emoticon:1435ff2429184e17bc948e4f19178e1e]

RE: High School Student Develops Turtle-Inspired Underwater Robot

DAB — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:45:44 GMT

Well done. The Wright Brothers did the same thing, they studied birds to develop their warping wing steering capability, which was very efficient, especially in windy conditions.

RE: AI Robot Ace Plays Table Tennis Against Human Players, Winning a Few Matches

Dipeshkachhi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:24:40 GMT

This is an incredible milestone for physical AI and robotics! It’s one thing to dominate in digital games, but translating that intelligence into the physical world—where you have to account for millisecond latency and complex ball spin—is a completely different beast.

Achieving a perception latency of around 10ms to track a high-speed ball shows just how far edge processing and robotic hardware have come. While beating human players is a fun demonstration, the broader implications for industrial automation—like high-speed sorting and safe human-robot collaboration—are what make this truly exciting. Great read!

RE: Modix Reveals Large 3D Printer That Can Print Furniture

DAB — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:13:45 GMT

Not surprised.

Once they began 3D printing houses, everything was fair game.

RE: Remember The Etch-A-Sketch Toy? Now, There’s EtchBot!

kmikemoo — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:12:47 GMT

Very impressive. I'm impressed that their software can figure out how to make a drawing of a single line. It's all connected on an Etch-A-Sketch.

RE: Remember The Etch-A-Sketch Toy? Now, There’s EtchBot!

dougw — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:12 GMT

Very cool. It seems like it would be a good fit to draw oscilloscope art which is also done by X-Y plotting.

RE: Scientists Are Working on a Tractor Beam to Remove Space Debris from Orbit

DAB — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:00:35 GMT

The science is very sketchy.

I think they will waste a lot of money before everyone realizes that this approach will not work.

Electrostatic is a repulsive force. You can make it appear to be an attractive force on the small scale, but that is just using smoke and mirrors.

RE: Researchers Make a Robotic Gripper Out of Langoustine Tails

DAB — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:56:44 GMT

Interesting, but I think I would rather eat Langoustine tails then watch them rot a gripper station.

RE: Three Robot Projects Shaping The Industry

SensoredHacker0 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:06:40 GMT

BEAM Robotics is dead but DARPA keeps funding it.

RE: Origami Inspires the Development of Transformative Structures and Materials

DAB — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:09:05 GMT

Mythbusters did an excellent show where they use origami to inflate a lead foil cube from a flat object using helium gas.

They had to fold it just right to get the object to properly inflate to prove that you could indeed float a lead balloon.

RE: Foxconn Collaborating with TECO to Build Data Centers

kmikemoo — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:41:46 GMT

Yeah... Foxconn made huge promises in order to build a facility here in Wisconsin. They got a lot of taxes breaks, etc. They built the building. They have delivered on about 10% of the initial pitch. [emoticon:83bbb1525ffc44c294fc5d238d2a33f7] I wouldn't pour my life's savings into this venture. They seem easily distracted by the next bright, shiny thing.

RE: Industrial Automation Gets a Brain: The Power of AI in Modern Robotics

DAB — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:20:47 GMT

The problem with AI is that it is not predictable.

That makes it very high risk for any implementations where humans are involved.

Regardless of where you use AI you always have to adopt an awareness of its limitations and adjust your operational procedures accordingly.

AI has not yet reached a capability where it can be used without human oversight.

RE: Industrial Automation Gets a Brain: The Power of AI in Modern Robotics

dougw — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:13:22 GMT

Ai can already make itself "smarter" by learning.

AI robots will be able to create "smarter" and more capable next gen AI robots.

When development goes exponential like this, it is hard for humans to predict the outcome beyond a very short timeframe.

We are starting to implement cobots in our plants, but still a long way from leading edge AI.

RE: Startup Completes Hypersonic Test Flight

robogary — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:44:50 GMT

even faster than coffee running thru my bladder :-)